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Studying in Chile

universities
18
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241
English-taught
173
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StudyPath lists 18 universities in Chile and 241 courses between them, 173 of which are taught in English. The cheapest verified fee is about US$3,922 a year, at UBB. 6 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-09-30.

Filter these 18 universitiesAll 241 courses, cheapest first

What the fee figure leaves out

A published fee is not what you pay

60 courses here, across 7 universities, carry a sourced note about a cost the headline figure does not include — a compulsory contribution, an income-tested scale, an annual increase that applies from year two, a rule about who qualifies. The most widely shared of them:

UdeC publishes Biología's arancel as $ 7.601.734, alongside an automatic Beca Interna UdeC that reduces it for students without state gratuidad, and a separate Valor Matrícula. There is no separate international tariff. It is recorded as context rather than a structured fee because the page heads the figure simply "Arancel" and never says whether that is…

“Arancel $ 7.601.734 Valor Matrícula $ 52.795 © 2026 Universidad de Concepción. Twitter Instagram Ir al contenido Abrir barra de herramientas”

UdeC · read from Biología — Admisión, Universidad de Concepción. Open any course on that page to see the sentence it came from.

What it costs

Annual international tuition, converted to US dollars so the two ends compare. The published figure in its own currency is the authoritative one.

Cheapest

US$3,922a year

UBB

Dearest

US$11,756a year

UCSC

What it costs to live

Student housing published by the university itself or by the body that runs its halls, cheapest first. Shown in the currency and period each one publishes — not converted, because a converted rent is a worse number than the real one.

  • UdeCConcepciónCLP 55,620per month
  • UAChValdiviaCLP 70,000–CLP 135,000per month
  • USACHSantiagoCLP 150,000per month
  • UCSantiagoCLP 200,000–CLP 260,000per month
  • UCNAntofagastaCLP 400,000per month

How Chile compares with other countries

Ranked against every other country on StudyPath. Countries charge in different currencies, so these figures are converted to US dollars and are approximate; the published figure, in its own currency, is on each university's page.

 ChileAmong countriesRange across countries
Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything~US$3,900at UBB39th lowest of 64 countries~US$207 (France) to ~US$27,300 (Hong Kong)
Tuition-free degrees we listpublished at zero for international studentsNone7 countries have some931 in Germany at most
Cheapest student housing a university publishesfor a year, from the lowest rate on its own site~US$711at UdeC21st lowest of 66 countriesFree (Saudi Arabia) to ~US$12,000 (Iceland)

Converted to US dollars at the site's exchange rates of 13 Sept 2026. A fee or rent published per term, month or week is scaled to a year, and housing is counted for twelve months of holding the room. The living-cost figure is what an immigration authority requires a student visa applicant to show, taken as a year; the UK's, for example, covers at most nine months, so this overstates it. See student finance for each country's exact wording.

Universities in Chile

Ranked universities first, then the rest by how many courses they publish. Unranked never means worse — it means QS has not measured it.